Anthony Arnull

Anthony "Tony" Arnull (Hon) is a British legal scholar specialising in EU law and holds the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham's Law School.

Early life and education
Arnull studied a BA in Law at the University of Sussex and at the Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles. He later qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales within a Magic Circle law firm. He then received a PhD from the University of Leicester.

1990
Arnull wrote The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual in 1990, assessing the impact of the European Court of Justice. In a review, Lewis outlined:


 * "It must also be said that the discussion is certainly thorough and scholarly and Arnull makes thought-provoking observations on the case law."

2003
Arnull provided a memorandum to the UK's House of Lords after being asked to comment on the new roles the European Court of Justice would play in the Treaty of Nice

2010
Arnull contributed to Channel 4's FactCheck on the Lord Pearson's claim: "Most of our national law is now made in Brussels" on Sky (6 April 2010)

2017
In 2017, Arnull published European Union law: a very short introduction, a book aimed at the general public to introduce the laws of the European Union, within the popular a very short introduction book series from Oxford University Press.

Editor
Arnull is a consultant editor on the European Law Journal

Honours
In 2024, Arnull was made an honorary King's Counsel, in recognition of his outstanding scholarship on European Union Law, which, the Ministry of Justice noted, "is widely respected and has had a significant impact on legislation and case law."

Books

 * European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction (2017)
 * The European Union and its Court of Justice (2006)
 * The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (1990).
 * The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (2015).